Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:77283 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 73266 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2014 11:00:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Sep 2014 11:00:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:52626] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 0A/62-57031-BD969145 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:00:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6076111A00C; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:00:39 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:00:39 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Dmitry Stogov cc: PHP Internals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Fix list() behavior inconsistency From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Dmitry Stogov wrote: > Please take a look and make your opinion. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/fix_list_behavior_inconsistency > > This inconsistency might be interpreted like a bug, but fixing it might > break existing PHP code (at least my attempt to fix it in documented way > broke few phpt tests). But at least your option "Enable string handling in all cases" makes additional things work, instead of making things *no longer* work. I realize that: list($a,$b) = "aa";var_dump($a,$b); Will now start returning something else than NULL, but I would almost consider that a bug. I would definitely elect to vote for "Enable string handling in all cases" as it IMO actually fixes something. cheers, Derick